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Thaksin urges Thais to vote for opposition party
 
 
  
 
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Bangkok (The Nation-Thailand/ANN) - Thailand's fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday urged Thai voters to support the opposition Pheu Thai Party in the next general election so that he can return to the country.
 
Speaking during a 15-minute phone-in from Africa to a religious ceremony his family carried out at a Chiang Mai temple, Thaksin expressed disbelief that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva would dissolve the House, but said if an election was held soon he hoped Pheu Thai would win by a landslide.
 
"[If there is an election], there is only one way that the government would win the general election - electoral fraud. I will not say anything else till the government dissolves the House. Do not believe that there will be a House dissolution. But if there is an election, I would like to ask Thais to vote for Pheu Thai Party so it wins by a landslide," he said.
 
Key members of the Shinawatra family joined the religious ceremony, including former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, Yaowapa Wongsawat, and Yingluck Shinawatra, as well as Thaksin's children.
 
Yaowapa said Thaksin financed construction of a main chapel at Wat Rongtham Samakki with an intention that merit from his donation would help bring him back as PM and Pheu Thai would win the next election.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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